Vladimir Matveev

That's because I wanted to make reading and writing events as close as possible, and for reading events to be cheaply convertible to writing events. Also, doing exactly what you...

> For me, it seems rather natural to refer to an attribute by its name. As I said, the problem is that attributes cannot be named by strings, they have...

I'll keep this open until the feature is implemented.

At the moment, you can use the [`Position`](https://docs.rs/xml-rs/0.8.3/xml/common/trait.Position.html) trait, which is implemented for `EventReader`. This, unfortunately, does prevent you from using the `into_iter()` interface. In the new version of the...

As I see it, changes in parsing and writing should be symmetric, because the respective data structures (writer::XmlEvent and reader::XmlEvent) are supposed to be convertible to each other. For now,...

@brackleian your change is released in 0.8.4. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to work on solving the entire issue, since I don't have capacity to work on xml-rs...

@brackleian I don't mind, but unfortunately I can't tell when I'll be able to take a look at any changes and merge them. Overall, I feel that a better rewrite...

I thought about doing so initially, but I'm not really sure if it actually will be convenient. Also, it probably wasn't possible way back when I started writing the library....

Hi, If you want, you can send a PR. A new implementation of the parser/emitter infrastructure is in the works, which would cover this use case as well (but unfortunately...

Thanks, this is bad indeed. I was sure that this case was handled.